The Civil and Environmental Engineering doctoral program enables students to complete collaborative, innovative research with faculty mentors in areas such as environmental health, environmental and water resources engineering, geosystems engineering, and structural engineering and mechanics.
The doctoral program is a research oriented pursuit that requires in-depth knowledge of a specific topic of study and involves close collaboration with a faculty mentor. Programs of study are highly individualized, but consist of two main components: course work and independent research.
Doctoral-level research leads to fascinating discoveries and novel technologies. Program outcomes include:
Doctoral degrees require the fulfillment of the specific department requirements including the number of courses with grades of S (satisfactory) or at least a B-, as well as successful completion of the qualifying examination and doctoral dissertation.
Civil and environmental engineers use their training to help society anticipate and respond to the emerging challenges of our changing world by focusing on natural and built systems, and by working at the intersection of infrastructure, the environment, and people.
Graduates of the doctoral program are well positioned for careers in academia, industry, government and consulting.
The doctoral program is the highest level of study and requires a serious commitment. Students who have excellent academic backgrounds and demonstrated capability for independent study/research are encouraged to apply.
Students entering the program are expected to meet the general admission requirements of the graduate school; gain acceptance into the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; and hold a bachelor's or master's degree in engineering or a related field.
We recognize that attending graduate school involves a significant financial investment. Our team is here to answer your questions about tuition rates and scholarship opportunities.
Please contact us at gradadmissions@tufts.edu.
Research/Areas of Interest: geotechnical earthquake engineering, seismic hazard mapping, natural hazards
Research/Areas of Interest: multiphase flow and transport in porous media, liquid-liquid and solid-liquid equilibria, sols and emulsions, surfactants and interfaces, mass transfer, biotransformation, emerging contaminants
Research/Areas of Interest: structural engineering, concrete design, bridge analysis and design, structural analysis/design
Research/Areas of Interest: drinking water quality and toxic materials, groundwater monitoring
Research/Areas of Interest: environmental health
Research/Areas of Interest: Mathematical models of material behavior; Nonlinear magneto- and electromechanical interactions; Biomechanics of soft materials; Rubber elasticity and inelasticity
Research/Areas of Interest: Air pollution monitoring, mobile monitoring, air pollution modeling, ambient air quality, indoor air quality, air pollution control, air pollution exposure, air pollution epidemiology
Research/Areas of Interest: geotechnical, laboratory testing, automation, soil behavior, physical properties, mechanical properties, material science
Research/Areas of Interest: environmental and occupational epidemiology, environmental health and safety
Research/Areas of Interest: Offshore Wind Energy Structural Design Earthquake Engineering
Research/Areas of Interest: urban air population, transportation emissions
Research/Areas of Interest: Water Diplomacy, Principled Pragmatism, Data Driven Decision Making, Climate and Health, Remote Sensing, Flood Forecasting
Research/Areas of Interest: design, behavior, and modeling of concrete structures
Research/Areas of Interest: water resources, decision making under uncertainty, hydrologic statistics, integrated global change assessment
Research/Areas of Interest: hydrology, water resources systems, IWRM
Research/Areas of Interest: Probabilistic system identification of structures, signal processing, Bayesian inference, model updating, structural dynamics, earthquake engineering, uncertainty quantification, verification and validation of computational models.
Research/Areas of Interest: cognition and learning sciences, science education, engineering education, diversity and identity, technology and education, language and cognition, multicompetence
Research/Areas of Interest: Bridge structural health monitoring, building train-induced vibrations, nondestructive testing of full-scale structures, fatigue life prediction of structures with nonproportional multi-axial loading.
Research/Areas of Interest: Environmental health, environmental epidemiology, air pollution, exposure science, data analytics
Research/Areas of Interest: Science focused on energy, development and environmental management. Computational modeling of electrical grid integration of renewable energy and storage. Interaction of science and policy in academia, industry and government
Research/Areas of Interest: engineering education, geoenvironmental and geotechnical engineering
Research/Areas of Interest: - Resilient and equitable infrastructure - Impacts of extreme events (e.g., drought, flood, wildfire) in a changing climate on infrastructure and communities - Climate adaptation of infrastructure - Slopes, dams, and levees - Unsaturated soil mechanics - Multi-physics (e.g., hydro-mechanical, thermo-hydro-mechanical) processes in soils - Analytical and numerical methods in geotechnical engineering
Research/Areas of Interest: applied mathematics and mechanics for geophysical and engineering problems
Research/Areas of Interest: epidemiologic methods